Modon, Simcha Cohen. Kol Musar.

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Modon, Simcha Cohen. Kol Musar.

Title within typographic border. Extensive use of headpieces and other decorative elements. Large typeface. Illustration of a “wheel of fortune” displaying of various human characteristics on f.31a. A wide-margined copy. ff. (32). Light staing, dampwrinkled. Contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine slightly chipped and rubbed. 4to Vinograd, Mantua 330

Mantua: Raphael Haim D’Italia 1725

Est: $500 - $700

“Renewer of the Hebrew Sonnet” - Cecil Roth. Contains some fifty sonnets, that is, poems of fourteen lines. Many of the poems are based on motifs found in the Talmud and rabbinic literature through the ages. Some are reflections on the various Biblical commandments, such as the shofar sounded on Rosh Hashanah, and the Tefilin worn daily. See C. Roth,The History of the Jews of Italy (1946) p. 400.